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I'm afraid I have the (normal) distaste of the beasts but don't kill if they are in the house – which they are. Having been bitten by spiders and watched how the poison spread, my flesh eaten, and how ill I was, I wonder sometimes how un-phased I am by them. That all sounds very dramatic but I'm talking about an area of about five centimetres wide.

I don't think I would have your phlegm with such an experience! Did you have any treatment? This post was actually to prepare me for a week in the country where mes copines (as my husband calls them) are busy at work decorating for Halloween.

I don't mind spiders as long as they are not venomous. Where I I've there are brown recluse and black widow spiders which gotta go, but I love the little black velvet ones, the orbs and my garden spiders. Haven't seen all the styles and furniture like spiders.

Well, I must have an extremely healthy house as these little critters are everywhere lately! I dare not destroy them but just trap and carry them to the outside world where they can set up shop there, in a tree. Not only are seemingly everywhere indoors right now, but I'm constantly removing them from the corners of window panes and around the door frames outside, and from under the balcony where they spin huge webs. Just yesterday, I also noticed that there are many more webs appearing almost daily on the bushes by my garage door where it is windy and all manner of little bits of debris is captured within these webs.

We too enjoyed one of Louise Bourgeois' spiders in San Francisco a couple of years ago, by the ferry building on the waterfront. It was quite a sight I can tell you!

It's amazing how they are everywhere and how many varieties there are. I - or someone in the family - transfers them outside here in the apt, but in the country house, I admit to vacuuming them. There are just too many in a house that stays empty for 3 weeks at at time.

Objects return our gazes look for look. They seem indifferent to us because we look on them indifferently. But for the eye that sees clearly, everything is a mirror; for a sincere and mindful observer, everything is profound.

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